Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York and the Hotel and Club Employees Union (an affiliate of the Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, A. F. of L.) expired on the 29th of February, 1948. For two weeks preceding the expiration date, the union and the Club met in almost continuous conference in an attempt to reach a settlement; for 18 days after the expiration date, bargaining continued while the employees remained at work under the conditions provided by the old contract. The maximum offer made by the Club was the extension of the expired contract...
Since that time, a strike or lockout, depending upon which side is heard, has been in progress at the Harvard Club of New York. In its attempt to break the strike, the Harvard Club has hired non-union help at rates as high as $8 a meal; in trying to arouse the sympathy of the public and the members of the Harvard Club, the union has staged mass demonstrations of employees and employees' children. The police have on several occasions been called in at the request of the Club...
These clubs form an anti-union group in the hotel and club industry and the tactics of the Harvard Club in the current dispute leave little question that an attempt is being made to break the union. It seems to me a disgrace to the College that an organization affiliated with it should act as spearhead in such a movement or should insist on its God-given right to pay as little as 60 cents an hour for human labor in a city where wage rates and the cost of living are the highest in the nation...
...attempt was made to hold a meeting of the Committee on the Friday before recess, but neither Bingham nor Burke was able to attend at that time. Dean Watson said that the presence of the two Council members was imperative...
...have very different problems to contend with in their attempt to compete with the professional shows but gain in prestige may more than atone for added worries and possible decrease in net profits...